| Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) develops software for interpreting digital photographs and video streams. Its Face Detection and Tracking Software Development Kit (FT-SDK) can reliably locate human faces in photographs and track the motion of human faces in video. Face detection and tracking has applications in security, video compression, automated photograph annotation, video navigation, people counting, photofinishing, and video-based security.
PittPatt's technology is widely considered to be the world leader in object detection and tracking, placing first in both the U.S. Intelligence Community's 2005 ARDA evaluation and a similar international evaluation, CLEAR, in 2006. This technology has also been exhibited at a number of U.S. science museums and appeared Wired Magazines's NextFest 2004.
PittPatt was founded in 2004 as a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. |
